The following books inspired me to write the book. In many cases I’m in complete agreement with the author’s position, in others I agree with some or most but not all of a books message.
Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (Ayn Rand)
The Virtue of Selfishness (Ayn Rand)
Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality (Don Watkins/Yaron Brook)
Rooseveltcare: How Social Security is Sabotaging The Last of Self-Reliance (Don Watkins)
The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels (Alex Epstein)
Fossil Future (Alex Epstein)
More From Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources—and What Happens Next (Andrew McAfee)
Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All (Michael Shellenberger)
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet (Bjorn Lomborg)
Where Is My Flying Car? (J. Storrs Hall)
How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom (Matt Ridley)
Superabundance: The Story of Population Growth, Innovation, and Human Flourishing on an Infinitely Bountiful Planet (Marian Tupy)
America’s Revolutionary Mind: A Moral History of the American Revolution and the Declaration That Defined It (C. Bradley Thompson)
Government Against The Economy (George Reisman)
The Capitalist Manifesto (Johan Norberg)
Capitalism Unbound: The Incontestable Moral Case for Individual Rights (Andrew Bernstein)
Economics in One Lesson (Henry Hazlitt)
Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to The Future (Johan Norberg)
Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Steven Pinker)
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves (Matt Ridley)
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About The World—And Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Hans Rosling)
Humankind: A Hopeful History (Rutger Bregman)
The Ultimate Resource (Julian Simon)
Think Right or Wrong, Not Left or Right 